Firefox Crashing

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Wade Smart wrote:
> 20090611 0833 GMT-5
>
> My friend just sent me a email saying he has a problem with this computer.
>
> Has been dual booting XP and Ubuntu 8.04 for over a year without any 
> problems. Last night he turned off his system and this morning when he 
> turned it back on he has crazy troubles under ubuntu.
>
> His browsers keep crashing - as in, open it up, go to any page, the page 
> might load, it might not, and the app closes.
>   
Does he have any problems in Windows XP? If not, then it is not a 
hardware issue.


> Pidgin is doing the same. He will open a window to me, post a message - 
> and immediately go offline. Then a few message attempt later, he wont go 
> off line, I can see the message but he cant see any posted response back.
>
> He emailed me this from Firefox:
>
> *** glibc detected *** /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.10/firefox: double free or 
> corruption (fasttop): 0xb18e9098 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb7da7454]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x96)[0xb7da94b6]
> /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1(talloc_free+0x153)[0xb3706503]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2[0xb0860289]
> /usr/lib/libtalloc.so.1(talloc_free+0x271)[0xb3706621]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(alloc_sub_basic+0xa87)[0xb088b7a8]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(talloc_sub_basic+0x33)[0xb088bd8f]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2[0xb07cb281]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(lp_lockdir+0x27)[0xb07cc3f2]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(lock_path+0x17)[0xb0885ac5]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(receive_unexpected+0x21)[0xb0824767]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(receive_nmb_packet+0x65)[0xb0827375]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(name_query+0x32e)[0xb0829e4d]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(_nss_wins_gethostbyname_r+0x38a)[0xb07c7555]
> /lib/libnss_wins.so.2(_nss_wins_gethostbyname2_r+0x4f)[0xb07c7853]
> /lib/tls/i686/cmov/li
>
>   


I am inclined to think that he either has corrupted files or has been 
rooted. Unfortunately, there is no builtin checksum capability like what 
you get with rpm packages so at this moment, I do not have any 
suggestions on how he can verify that his files are intact.